That’s where author Brian Drake comes in—sending them hither and yon around the globe, and keeping them up to their necks in action.

Brian’s new book, Skills to Kill, the first published by Liberty Island, is actually four adventures for the price of one. It’s a four-part novel, tied together as a mission to catch a mysterious new arms dealer known only as “The Duchess.”

In each leg of their mission, Dane and Nina are aided by—or go up against—old friends from their many years in the spy biz.

The trail starts in Italy. What begins as a job to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Mafia boss evolves into a race to recover a stolen SADM (otherwise known as a suitcase nuke). Then it’s off to Paris, where the main fly in the ointment is Dane’s former protégé, IRA alumnus Sean McFadden, who does his level best to kill them. After a side-trip to Greece, it’s off to Mexico, where a particularly vicious cartel—employing more weapons purchased from the Duchess—are terrorizing a big chunk of the country. The trail leads next to New York, where Dane and Nina run a scam on Nina’s Russian FSB mentor and foil a plot to embarrass Dane's old pal the President, then bop over to Helsinki for the final battle with McFadden and the Duchess. Busy bees, these.

In between all the firefights, car chases and explosions, there’s plenty of entertaining sexual (and non-sexual) banter between Dane and Nina, a good deal of local color from each exotic locale, and a lot of attention to various sorts of exotic weapons. Adding to the festivities are song lyrics in the dialogue, thinly veiled references to that other super secret agent (you know, the British guy), and a nod to Raymond Chandler.

But despite all the focus on action, Skills to Kill’s strongest point is the relationship between Dane and Nina. They are genuinely likeable characters, and when they’re having fun (which is most of the time) you will too. It's available HERE.

One point made all the difference for Kelly Shryock as the veteran driver from Fertile captured his second straight and third overall All Iowa Points Modified championship in 2018. His first AIP title came in 1989 showing just how long he had been one of the top Modified drivers in the nation.

Eleven feature wins and thirty-four top five finishes racked up 120 points in the All Iowa Points 5-point scale system allowing Shryock to edge out Jesse Dennis by just one at the end of the season. Dennis had more feature wins with fourteen, but had four fewer top five finishes than the champion. Hinton's Jay Noteboom was close behind in third after taking fifteen feature wins in twenty-eight top five finishes. This solid season will move Noteboom to the top of the list when the cumulative points for the division from 2000 to 2018 is released during the holiday season.

Placing his focus on the Modified in 2018 Jeff Aikey had a strong finish including a win in the IMCA Super Nationals to rank fourth in the final standings. The 1984 All Iowa Points Sportsman champion and the 2003 Late Model champ, Aikey had nine wins in his Modified this season. Troy Cordes posted a solid fifth-place showing, early season point leader Bryce Garnhart was sixth and three-time champion Chris Abelson (2014-2016) filled out the top ten.

Looking for the "Newcomer of the Year", or the driver who has never had a top five finish in the Modifieds before is a bit of a search in this class as the first three on the list Shadren Turner (85th), Chad Clancy (109th) and Richard Spriggs (118th) are on the list for the first time due to regular racing returning to the Bethany Speedway in northwest Missouri this season. (And if you are wondering why that would matter to the "All Iowa Points" please read the Other States section here). Next in line is former Late Model driver Ben Nading in the 136th position on the list so you have to go all the way down to two drivers tied for 144th in the standings, Keegan Nordquist and Logan Anderson for someone who "moved up" from a support class to the Modifieds.

The final 2018 All Iowa Points standings will continue with the Stock Cars on Wednesday here on the Back Stretch.

These aren’t necessarily the result of intentional voter suppression right then and there at the local level—but they are a reminder of how broken and dysfunctional America’s voting systems are, and how badly we need nationwide reform that will improve voting access and security. We shouldn’t be relying on a few volunteers per precinct, or having people turned away because no one can find the voting machines that turn out to be locked away in a closet.

Tyson Chandler is no longer a member of the Phoenix Suns. Word came out earlier this week that the veteran center would reach a buyout with Phoenix and be free to sign with a team of his choosing — likely the Los Angeles Lakers — soon. On Sunday, Phoenix sent out a release stating that Chandler had indeed been bought out by the team.

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Results from the 2018 November World Championships

All hail the new World Champions!

After four days of clever planning, skillful duels, and furious battles, the 2018 November World Championships have come to a close. From Wednesday through Sunday, hundreds of talented players converged on the Fantasy Flight Games Center from across the world to compete in hundreds upon hundreds of matches.

Today, we're happy to celebrate these champions and their success by sharing their World Champion lists along with some of the event's highlights and statistics.

A Game of Thrones: The Card Game

The numbers suggested that we should have expected someone playing either House Targaryen or House Stark to win the 2018 A Game of Thrones: The Card Game World Championship and claim the Iron Throne. They were the two most heavily represented Houses on the tournament's Day 1A Swiss rounds, two of the three most heavily represented Houses on Day 1B, and then, again, the two most heavily represented Houses heading into the Day 2 elimination rounds.

Lennart Paga, however, had other plans. He played House Martell and plotted his way through the field, relying upon his Banner of the Wolf and Flea Bottom to overthrow the tournament's top Stark and Targaryen players and win the title of 2018 A Game of Thrones: The Card Game World Champion!

Flea Bottom featured prominently in Lennart's deck. Though the location was Restricted with the last FAQ update, it proved well worth its inclusion in Lennart's deck, as he was running a heavy contingent of characters whom he could use Flea Bottom to bring into play and whom then allowed him to trigger potent "enters play" Reactions or whom he could sacrifice—as with Bran Stark—to limit his opponent's options.

Lennart's Martell deck is a true example of clever design, and it is now available for download.

World Champion Lists

Although Lennart's cunning use of Flea Bottom helped carry him to the 2018 World Championship, he was by no means the only player in the Top 16 who felt the card retained its importance, even while restricted. Of the 16 top players, 9 of them included the location in their deck, making it easily the most popular Top 16 restricted card.

Meanwhile, the top Day 2 agenda, Fealty, took a spill as the event headed into the Top 16.

Only one Top 16 player was using the agenda, and though The Wars to Come unsurprisingly rose to prominence (with 5 players), the prominence of Banner of the Wolf may have been a surprise. Lennart wasn't the only player to use the agenda. Three of the Top 16 players found tremendous value in courting the Starks.

Note: The players' seeding was determined upon their qualification for the Day 2 elimination rounds.

Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game

After a year that saw the Scorpion Clan dominate most Organized Play events for Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game, Erik Baalhuis strode confidently into the heart of Scorpion territory and—with the Emperor's attention fully devoted to the contest—outdueled Scorpion Johnny Shen in the final match of the 2018 Winter Court World Championship. For his victory, Erik was honored with the title of Shogun.

Erik played multiple games on the weekend's livestream, and his play throughout was marked by a patience that suited his Crane deck perfectly. He leaned into the Crane's strengths with a good number of reactive, controlling cards, including Mirumoto's Fury, his choice of Restricted card—a choice which notably set him outside the trends set by most other Day 2 qualifiers.

In several games, Erik's keen use of Mirumoto's Fury allowed him to bank fate for later use—and to play any of the 8 characters in his conflict deck, often bringing a character like Menacing Iron Warrior into play with three or four additional fate to make the Warrior a threat for future rounds. As a result, players who mistook Erik's patience for a lack of options were quick to find their mistakes punished.

You can find Erik's livestreamed matches archived on our Twitch.TV channel, and you review the exquisite balance of Erik's Crane deck for yourself. It is now available for download.

World Champion Lists

Although Erik's impactful choice of Mirumoto's Fury set him apart from most Day 2 contenders, he was by no means the only player to spend his influence on support from the Dragon Clan. Fully thirty percent of all Day 2 players splashed Dragon Clan cards into their decks, and that was on top of the 14% of all players who were playing Dragon Clan decks in the first place.

As one might expect, the Scorpion Clan also crept into the Top 16 in good numbers… and there are rumors that clan may have stopped short of ultimate victory simply to avoid the extra scrutiny. If this is true, one can only wonder: Are we likely to see the Scorpion back to their scheming ways throughout the next year of Organized Play?

2018 Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game World Championship Top 16

NAME

CLAN

INFLUENCED

ROLE

6. Pablo Pintor Espinosa

Crab

Dragon

Keeper of Earth

7. Erik Baalhuis

Crane

Dragon

Seeker of Air

10. Christopher Pottorf

Dragon

Crane

Seeker of Fire

11. Marc Payment

Scorpion

Crane

Keeper of Earth

18. Travis McDaniel

Phoenix

Dragon

Seeker of Air

25. Andrew Case

Scorpion

Dragon

Seeker of Void

32. Johnny Shen

Scorpion

Dragon

Seeker of Void

34. Jose Luis Saenz

Phoenix

Dragon

Seeker of Air

35. Luiz Bretas

Dragon

Crab

Seeker of Fire

37. Brad Emon

Crane

Dragon

Seeker of Air

41. Zachary Devine

Scorpion

Dragon

Seeker of Void

46. Davis Kingsley

Dragon

Crab

Seeker of Fire

49. Ronny Szutu

Crane

Scorpion

Seeker of Air

61. Aaron Frede

Dragon

Crab

Seeker of Fire

76. Daniel Trujillo

Dragon

Crab

Seeker of Fire

77. Samuel Benies

Scorpion

Phoenix

Keeper of Earth

Note: The players' seeding was determined upon their qualification for the Day 2 elimination rounds.

Runewars Miniatures Game

The 2018 Runewars Miniatures Game World Championship began brightly with an array of armies that saw good representation from all four factions and heroes both old and new. The Daqan Lords dominated the early proceedings, having won the loyalty of 35% of all participants, and the Daqan leaders Kari Wraithstalker and Baron Zachareth tied for the second most popular heroes at the event, right behind Waiqar's stalwart knight, the vampire Lord Vorun'thul.

But as the day wore on and the battlefields grew slick with blood, it was the brutal Uthuk Y'llan who dominated the 2018 Runewars Miniatures Game World Championships. Their forces drew upon their Ynfernael strength to run rampant across Terrinoth's most important battlefields. Of the event's Top 4 players, three of them had tied their fates to those of the Ynfernael hordes, and two of them made the finals, crushing the last of Waiqar's forcs along the way.

In the end, it was Justin Hare who fought with the most ferocity, battling past Jennifer Bedell to claim the title of 2018 Runewars Miniatures Game World Champion!

Arguably the most notable difference between Justin's army and the one that Jennifer played was the fact that Justin ran just one hero—Ravos the Everhungry—while Jennifer ran Ravos alongside the witch Kethra A'laak. This left Justin with more points to spend on his infantry, and he committed 68 of those points to a full tray of Berserkers loaded with Tempered Steel, Frontline Spined Thresher, Warsprinter, and Aggressive Shrieker.

Justin spent the rest of his points on Spined Threshers, while Jennifer had gone all-in on the Spined Threshers, herself, including no fewer than four Spined Threshers units in her army.

World Champion Lists

You can still find the video of Justin seizing his victory in our archives at Twitch.TV/FFGLive.

Notably, Justin wasn't the only champion among the Runewars players in attendance at the 2018 November World Championships. We also celebrated the dedication and talent with which players customized their armies. Judges awarded prizes in two categories—Best Painted Figure and Best Painted Army.

Thomas Paterson was the winner of the Best Painted Figure prize with his Carrion Lancer.

Curtis Chandler claimed the Best Painted Army prize with his Waiqar forces.

A Study in Excellence

Once again, we want to congratulate our new World Champions and give our thanks to everyone who attended the 2018 November World Championships. Your enthusiasm, skill, and sportsmanship were fantastic all weekend long, and we look forward to seeing many of you at the 2019 World Championships.

In the meantime, you'll find much of the action archived (for now) on Twitch.TV/FFGLive, and you can start along your journey to next year's World Champonships by watching the stream, downloading the World Champioship lists, and getting a better sense of how these games are played at the very highest levels!

Tyson Chandler is going home. The Phoenix Suns are buying out Chandler’s contract, a move that will allow the 18-year veteran — once he clears waivers — to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers. A person with direct knowledge of the situation confirmed the buyout plan to The Associated Press ...

<a href="https://screenrant.com/tag/the-walking-dead/"><strong><em>The Walking Dead</em></strong></a>'s latest episode said goodbye to Rick (Andrew Lincoln); here's why it didn't include Carl (Chandler Riggs). AMC's post-apocalyptic series is entering uncharted territory as it goes on without its primary protagonist. And while many were initially skeptical about how things would all play out, the show was able to craft what many consider a proper send-off for the character.

One Broward County, Florida, polling place was also relocated to a gated community. Security demanded voters’ IDs as a condition of entering the community to vote. Voters don’t need an ID to cast a provisional ballot. Moreover, they certainly shouldn’t have to provide ID to a private entity as a condition of exercising their right to vote.

One Kentucky polling place ran out of ballots despite advance warning of high turnout.

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A polling place in Kentucky reportedly ran out of ballots. Election officials should have known turnout would be high! The pundits who pooh-poohed the high early vote as just "cannibalization" should be ashamed of enabling a narrative turnout would be low https://t.co/BhKpkbxGuh

No one is sure what’s going down in Dodge City, Kansas, which is predominantly Latinx. Officials threw up obstacles well before the election. Dodge City’s 13,000 registered voters share one polling site—recently moved a mile from any public transport. Then, when Election Day came, they barred media. The county’s other 1,300 registered voters are split among three polling sites, by the way.

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County clerk in Dodge City KS not allowing media in polling site. They have 1 polling site for 13,000 in city 61% Hispanics & moved it outside of town, 1 mile from bus stop https://t.co/0ac2wD21oY

Atlanta Hawks Rookie Trae Young Gets Praise From NBA Stars

Atlanta Hawks rookie Trae Young is already making huge waves in the NBA, and his fellow basketball stars are all too happy to tell Young Hollywood about it! Hear from the likes of Chris Paul, Donovan Mitchell, Kevin Love, Victor Oladipo, Jaylen Brown, Candace Parker, Isaiah Thomas, JaVale McGee, Jamal Crawford, Kevin Knox, Kyle Kuzma, Mohamed Bamba, Tyson Chandler, sports commentator Ernie Johnson Jr, and analyst Shannon Sharpe as they break down all the reasons why Trae is definitely one to watch out for not just this season but for many seasons to come!

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The veteran center signed with the Lakers on Tuesday, after the 48-hour period during which a team could have claimed him off waivers passed. Chandler was waived after he reached a buyout agreement with the Phoenix Suns. He was owed $13.5 million in the final...

Dennis Mitchell of Chandler, AZ, member of the Arizona Society of Homebrewers, won a gold medal in Category 29: Traditional Mead during the 2018 National Homebrew Competition Final Round in Portland, OR. Mitchell's semi-sweet mead was chosen as the best among 67 entries.

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By the later 1930s, most U.S. journalists realized their mistake in underestimating Hitler or failing to imagine just how bad things could get. (Though there remained infamous exceptions, like Douglas Chandler, who wrote a loving paean to “Changing Berlin” for National Geographic in 1937.) Dorothy Thompson, who judged Hitler a man of “startling insignificance” in 1928, realized her mistake by mid-decade when she, like Mowrer, began raising the alarm.

“No people ever recognize their dictator in advance,” she reflected in 1935. “He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument [of] the Incorporated National Will.” Applying the lesson to the U.S., she wrote, “When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American.”

The veteran center signed with the Lakers on Tuesday, after the 48-hour period during which a team could have claimed him off waivers passed. Chandler was waived after he reached a buyout agreement with the Phoenix Suns. He was owed $13.5 million in the final...

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Astros right-hander Lance McCullers Jr. underwent Tommy John surgery today and will miss the 2019 season, tweets Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle. It’s a brutal blow for an Astros rotation that was already faced with the possibility of losing both Dallas Keuchel and Charlie Morton to free agency. The loss of McCullers for the upcoming season now gives the Astros a third rotation piece to potentially replace. Houston does have some internal options who’d likely be starting for other organizations; righties Collin McHugh and Brad Peacock have both proven to be viable multi-inning relievers and could potentially slot into the starting five next year depending on the moves that president of baseball operation Jeff Luhnow and the rest of the Houston front office put together. Luhnow, in fact, spoke today about the possibility of McHugh returning to a starting role next season (Twitter link via Rome). “I’d say we have three spots fairly well locked up, if we choose to go down the path of putting (Collin) McH

Astros right-hander Lance McCullers Jr. underwent Tommy John surgery today and will miss the 2019 season, tweets Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle. It’s a brutal blow for an Astros rotation that was already faced with the possibility of losing both Dallas Keuchel and Charlie Morton to free agency. The loss of McCullers for the…

There's one thing I know for sure around the holiday season: Thanksgiving is a time for family, good food, and binge watching Friends episodes. While the iconic NBC series has been off the air for almost 15 years, nostalgic fans can still get their fill by binging each season on Netflix, trying their hand at show trivia, and buying fandom merch in bulk. Case in point? This hilarious Turkey Mug ($22) from Firebox. Yes, the love for the Central Perk crew has gotten so specific, you can sip on your morning coffee from a Monica-inspired mug.

Days of Our Lives (DOOL) spoilers tease that Paul (Christopher Sean) will be getting more unsure of his relationship with Will (Chandler Massey) as time goes on. Will seems to say all the right words and does all the right things, like getting a wheelchair-accessible apartment for Paul. But Paul’s keen detective skills can sense that something just isn’t right.… Keep Reading

Thank you! Instead of being patient he will either get one of the young core guys traded or benched. Sign a bunch of washed up players who can’t keep up in the finals & bronsexuals will say “he needs more help”.

I do not ramble on about LeBron. I ramble on about you and your shortcomings, Swanson/mio/Ptn. How do you not get this. You bring up Lebron, generally stupidly.
What have I said about LeBron, besides his lousy defense?
Well your Luke-love must have worked, your obsession goes on and on, topic after topic, whether originally LeBron-related or not.

LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles Lakers made their acquisition of veteran center Tyson Chandler official Tuesday (Nov 6), signing him two days after he reached a buyout deal with the Phoenix Suns.
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Well, it’s Election Day, so no matter what happens when the polls close tonight, at least we have Below Deck to remind ourselves that things could always be worse. We could be adrift in the heart of the South Pacific drinking spiked coffee at 6 a.m. with Chandler, who runs
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I think that this year is gettin' better and better, musically speaking always! After so many great albums so far, it's time for OUTLOUD's newest opus with the title "Virtual Hero Society" through Rock Of Angels Records. The band is fronted by the amazing singer Chandler Mogel and the 'mighty' Bob Katsionis (Firewind) who is doin' an excellent job here (as always).

The Washington Capitals wrap up their “four straight games out of town” tour (they stopped off at home after the win in Calgary last Saturday) with a visit to Bell Centre to face the Montreal Canadiens. The Caps are looking to build on the success of the western Canada leg of the journey, having won two of three games.On the other side, Montreal will be hoping to wash the taste of a 4-1 loss to the Dallas Stars at Bell Centre on Tuesday out of their mouths.

The Canadiens started the season fast, opening with a 4-1-1 record in their first half-dozen games.Since then, however, Montreal is 2-2-1 to slip to 6-3-2 overall and into fourth place in the Atlantic Division.Montreal has had a consistent offense in the 2-2-1 slide, scoring three goals in four consecutive games (five in a row, including the win against the St. Louis Blues before this slide started) before being held to one by Dallas.The inconsistency has been on the defensive side of the ledger where the Habs have alternated four goals allowed in games with better defensive efforts, a 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames and a 3-0 whitewashing of the Boston Bruins.

The defensive inconsistency lately has not spread to goaltender Carey Price, at least not in its entirety.He was the goalie of record in four of the five decisions (2-1-1), but he posted a goals against average of 2.23 in those games and a save percentage of .919.Price is coming off a season in which he appeared in only 49 games, a season interrupted by injury absences due to a lower body injury and a concussion.It matters because heavier workload has agreed with him over the years.Six times before this season Price appeared in more than 60 games, and in four of them he posted save percentages over .920, and in only one of them did he post a goals against average over 2.50 (2.83 in 52 appearances in 2008-2009).He has been especially tough to beat at home over his career – 164-92-47, 2.30, .922, with 28 of his 41 career shutouts.However, he has struggled against the Caps, going 6-13-4, 3.30, .891, with one shutout in 23 career appearances.

Max Domi leads the Canadiens in points (5-6-11), and he is one of 20 players in the league to have posted at least ten points and logged at least ten penalty minutes (he has 10, although six of those came in Tuesday’s loss to Dallas).Domi is in his first season with Montreal, having arrived in a trade with Arizona for Alex Galchenyuk in one of those trades in the category “players who need new scenery.”Domi had a six-game points streak stopped against Dallas (5-3-8), and he will come into this game having scored only one of his five goals on home ice this season.His dispatch to Montreal would seem to be a product of his being unable to capitalize and improve on a fine rookie season in which he went 18-34-52, plus-3, with Arizona.He managed only 18 goals and 73 points over the next two seasons combined.His 11 points in 11 games so far would suggest the change in scenery has been beneficial.Domi is 0-4-4,. Plus-4, in six career games against Washington.

For the first seven seasons of Jeff Petry’s career, he was a defenseman of modest offensive production, more of a “glue that binds” sort of player.He never topped eight goals in any of those seasons (four-plus seasons with Edmonton and two-plus seasons with the Canadiens) and never reached the 30-point mark.Last year was a different story.In the first season of his career in which he appeared in every contest in an 82-game season, he went 12-30-42, the goals, assists, and points being career bests.He did it largely by being the go-to force from the blue line on the power play.Petry’s six power play goals doubled his career total, and his 17 power play assists were more than he recorded in his previous five seasons combined (13).He also skated 23:30, also a career high. His goal scoring so far this season is not matching last year’s pace (one), but he does have nine points in 11 games so far.Petry is 2-3-5, minus-4, in 13 career games against the Caps.

1.Montreal does a good job suppressing shots.The 28.4 shots per game allowed is fifth-best in the league.

2.The Canadiens have been gifted a lot of power play chances on home ice (28/third-most in the league), but they have done little with those opportunities (17.8 percent/18th).

3.Montreal closes games poorly.They have only six third period goals all season, last in the league.

4.The second period is known as the “long change” period for team, their bench being across the red line from the goal they must defend.For the Canadiens, it is the “power play period.”No team has spent more time on the man advantage in the middle period than Montreal so far (35:11), almost 12 more minutes than they have spent shorthanded (11:47).

5.The Canadiens are capable of playing from behind with a certain urgency in one respect.Their shot attempts-for percentage at 5-on-5 (61.50) is fourth-best in the league.

1.Alex Ovechkin scored eight goals in October. It will surprise precisely no one that since he came into the league in the 2005-2006 season, Ovechkin has scored goals in more games in the month of October than any other player, 64 games in all (72 goals).It would surprise only a few that Ovechkin happens to have more goal-games in every month of the NHL regular season calendar (October through April) since he came into the league.

2.John Carlson finished October with five goals in ten games. He did not record a goal in October either last season or the preceding season.Last season he went 14 games without a goal before potting one, and in the preceding season he started the season with a 25-game goalless streak.

3.It would be good if the Caps led after two periods. In each of their five wins to date, the Caps led after 40 minutes.They have yet to win a game when trailing or tied at the second intermission.

4.OK, so which forward you got with the most shorthanded time on ice per game… Lars Eller? Chandler Stephenson?Nicklas Backstrom?No, no, and no.It’s Devante Smith-Pelly with 2:11 per game.

5.The key to stopping the Caps’ power play might be to keep them from getting any shots to the net. Sounds almost cliché, but the Caps have 13 goals on 44 shots, a 29.5 percent shooting percentage.Evgeny Kuznetsov has five power play goals on only 11 shots 45.4 percent).

The Peerless’ Players to Ponder

Montreal: Brendan Gallagher

Did you ever have something in your shoe that doesn’t quite hurt, but annoys the heck out of you?You take off your shoe, shake it vigorously, put it back on, only to find your annoyance is still there?Well, that’s Brendan Gallagher.He’s not so much a “little ball of hate” in the mold of Pat Verbeek from years gone by or Brad Marchand of more recent vintage.He’s more like, “what’s that damned buzz in my ear that won’t go away?”But while he might annoy, poke, prod, get under the skin of opponents, he has developed into a talented offensive player.Last season he posted a career high of 31 goals, more than he had in 117 games over the previous two seasons combined (29). He came out of the box hot this season, posting seven goals in 11 games played to date, three of them game-winners.Only once in six games on home ice so far has he failed to record a goal (October 11th in a 3-0 loss to Los Angeles).Gallagher is 3-1-4, minus-7, in 14 career games against the Caps.

Washington: Michal Kempny

After being concussed in a pre-season game in St. Louis on September 25th, Michael Kempny was absent from the lineup until taking the ice for the third regular season game for the Caps.His ice time has not be rationed in any extraordinary way since his return, ranging from 16:06 against Edmonton last Thursday to 20:38 against Calgary last Saturday, averaging 17:44, about a minute more than he averaged with the Caps in 22 games to close the regular season last spring.What he does not have in those minutes is point.Kempny has one assist, that coming in a 6-5 Gimmick loss to Florida on October 19th.Not that he was a big point producer last spring, posting two goals and an assist in those 22 games with Washington.However, with Dmitry Orlov (0-1-1) and Christian Djoos (0-2-2) with sluggish offensive starts from the blue line, any contribution Kempny makes would certainly be welcome.He does not have a point in four career games against Montreal.

In the end…

Washington has had an unworldly level of success at Bell Centre.The Caps have not lost a game in regulation in Montreal since January 10, 2009 (a 5-4 loss on a Sergei Kostitsyn goal with less than 30 seconds left).Since then, the Caps are 13-0-2, only three times in that span did the Caps allow more than two goals, and only four times did they allow more than 30 shots on goal.They have outscored Montreal by a 53-28 margin in that span.The default position might be “Montreal is due.”We don’t do default.

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The Los Angeles Lakers made official what had been speculated for days, signing free agent center Tyson Chandler on Tuesday. While the team did not announce details of Chandler's contract, ESPN reported the deal will pay Chandler $2,109,867 and the Lakers will take on a cap hit of $1,333,140. Chandler

These are the Friends! Janice, Regina, Gunther, Ross, Chandler and Geller. They were born on 12/15/17 in Norwood in a home with too many pets. We are working on getting all the animals fixed and took this family in. They are playful, outgoing, frien... see more at Petfinder.com

These are the Friends! Janice, Regina, Gunther, Ross, Chandler and Geller. They were born on 12/15/17 in Norwood in a home with too many pets. We are working on getting all the animals fixed and took this family in. They are playful, outgoing, frien... see more at Petfinder.com

These are the Friends! Janice, Regina, Gunther, Ross, Chandler and Geller. They were born on 12/15/17 in Norwood in a home with too many pets. We are working on getting all the animals fixed and took this family in.
They are playful, outgoing, friendly and lovable! They are neutered, vaccinated, micro chipped, and negative for fiv/felv. Chandler likes to be a parrot and sit on your shoulder to watch everything!
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Technically speaking, the crew on this season of Below Deck is very competent. There are hardly any “green” crew members, like in years past. Even so, that doesn’t mean that there’s less drama. In fact, there’s more drama within the crew and it’s probably because everyone thinks that they know what they’re talking about and […]

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1972: Jingles the clown scared Andrea on Somerset.1986: Robert S. Woods debuted as Paul on Days of our Lives. 1986: James Stenbeck returned from the dead with, "Hello, Barbara"1995: All My Children's Julia found a surprise in her closet.

"The best prophet of the future is the past."― Lord Byron

"Today in Soap Opera History" is a collection of the most memorable, interesting and influential events in the history of scripted, serialized programs. From birthdays and anniversaries to scandals and controversies, every day this column celebrates the soap opera in American culture.

On this date in...

1957: On The Edge of Night, Roger (Allen Nourse) worried about Mary.

1972: On Somerset, Andrea Moore (Harriet Hall) was terrified when she was woken up in her bedroom by Jingles the Clown. When Carter Matson (Jay Gregory) ran into the room after hearing her screams, he didn't see anything and told Andrea that Jingles was not real.

1977: CBS aired the first 60-minute episode of Guiding Light. The show ran for 15 minutes from 1937 to 1968 on radio and then television before expanding to 30 minutes a day.

In the episode, Dr. Ed Bauer (Mart Hulswit) told Eve Stapleton (Janet Grey) that she had Blake-Kearney Syndrome and an 80% chance of going blind. Eve's sister, Rita (Lenore Kasdorf), was also present. Eve said that she would be in the 20% and eventually ran from the room. An emotional Rita watched as her sister fled Cedars and set off after her. Location shooting followed Eve crying through the streets of "Springfield", stopping at the sight of a blind woman knocked down by skateboarders. Rita searched the streets until she found her sister, embracing her and bringing her home.

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1980: Season 4 of Dallas premiered on CBS. J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) was rushed to the hospital after being shot. A writers' strike delayed the start of the season to November.

1984: On Santa Barbara, at the wildlife refuge Peter Flint (Stephen Meadows) aimed a gun at Joe Perkins (Mark Arnold) and prepared to pull the trigger.

1985: On Knots Landing, Valene Ewing (Joan Van Ark) told Ben Gibson (Doug Sheehan) she loved him and was ready to get married.

A few weeks later, People magazine published a story on Doug Sheehan where he talked about his unhappiness at Knots Landing:

He wants to act and he's not getting much of a chance playing a stolid second fiddle to Van Ark's traumas, Lisa Hartman's singing, Michele Lee's bravura and Donna Mills' eyelashes. "It's like a nest of baby birds," he says, "each of them with their mouths open, and the aggressive one gets the worm. I've never been aggressive and I'm being smothered." Sheehan wants to get more humor into his character. "I think it adds humanity," he says. But the producers "stifle that," Sheehan insists. "My character has turned into one of the girls. He spends all his time in the kitchen baking brownies."

1986: On As the World Turns, Barbara Ryan (Colleen Zenk) was shocked when the ex-husband she thought was dead, James Stenbeck (Anthony Herrera), suddenly appeared and said one simple but unforgettable line: "Hello, Barbara." It was one of the best Friday cliffhangers in soap opera history.

Friday, November 7, 1986:

The Friday cliffhanger was recreated the following Monday (November 10):

1986: Robert S. Woods debuted as Paul Stewart in Days of our Lives, replacing Gregory Mortensen in the role.

1990: On The Young and the Restless, John Silva (John Castellanos) crossed examined the head of security, Calvin Daniels, at Danny Romalotti's trial for cocaine possession.

The attorney for a Catholic priest suspended from ministry by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City says he is considering filing a defamation lawsuit against the archdiocese.

"Please be advised that I represent Father James Mickus and we are investigating a claim of possible defamation as a result of a talk you gave at the church in Chandler, press statements issued under your authority ..., as well as a letter which it appears you sent to other priests in the Archdiocese," Enid attorney Stephen Jones said Monday in a letter to Archbishop Paul Coakley.

Coakley on Sunday announced the removal of Mickus as pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Chandler and Saint Louis Catholic Church in Stroud pending an investigation into an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor.

Jones said the allegation against Mickus, 74, appears to be the same one that an that archdiocesan review board investigated in 2002 and found not credible.

"Father Mickus made a statement refuting the complaint and denying the allegation," while the accuser declined the opportunity to appear before the review board to support his allegation, Jones said.

Mickus was reinstated in 2003.

Jones said Mickus filed a Garfield County defamation lawsuit against his accuser after the original allegation was made, but dismissed the lawsuit after his accuser failed to file a counterclaim pressing his allegation.

Jones said the accuser later filed an Oklahoma County lawsuit against the archdiocese and Mickus, but the district court dismissed the allegations against the archdiocese and the decision was upheld on appeal.

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Bourbon and books are old pals: William Faulkner, Dorothy Parker, and Raymond Chandler were all famously fond. These rustic bookends have a novel plot twist. Born as American White Oak, they were harvested from the Ozarks foothills, built into barrels, and given an important job: perfectly aging Kentucky bourbon. Now, they're ready for their cozy retirement, holding treasured volumes in a place of honor. Those who like their books with a bourbon chaser are bound to give this hand-crafted set great reviews. Handmade in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The Lakers added Tyson Chandler today in a move that was made in part because the team’s lack of confidence in former second-round pick Ivica Zubac, Tania Ganguli of The Los Angeles Times reports. Zubac has had promising appearances as a Laker, like his game against Portland last week where he had nine points and […]

The Lakers have signed Tyson Chandler, GM Rob Pelinka announces (via the team’s website). Chandler was waived by the Suns over the weekend and cleared waivers earlier today. “Having observed our roster for the first 10 games of this young season, one of the areas that Earvin and I discussed with Luke that we desired […]

Cornerstone Christian Fellowship is a large bible-teaching multisite church with three campuses in Chandler, San Tan Valley, and Scottsdale, AZ. Our mission is to Reach the Phoenix area for Christ and produce fully devoted followers of Christ. Our vision
is to "do" church in a way that reflects the community and offers real answers to life, while remaining true to God's Word. In 1995, Pastor Linn Winters and his wife Lisa came to Chandler with two other couples to plant a church with three focus areas: Teach
God’s Word in a way that is practicable and relevant, Worship authentically -- in a way that supersedes singing in church and becomes how we live our lives and to be a place where kids would want to come to church. Since 1995, the church has grown into 7000
member and attenders each week. With dozens of ministries focusing on specific needs of both the community and the body of believers at Cornerstone, we continue seeking to follow in the footsteps of Christ.

The Events Coordinator at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship works directly with the Lead Pastor and the Director of Communications & Marketing in maintaining a high level of excellence in developing programs, events, teams, tools and resources that create
an excellent event environment. They should lead by example, and cultivate a positive spirit throughout the church family. They should represent Christ and His church well in the community at large. They should be a team player and follow the biblical model
of sacrifice by being willing to put the needs of others in front of their own. In all of their actions, they should be positive and supportive of the Core Values and the Vision of our church.

The Worship Pastor will point people towards Jesus through the medium of art and music by overseeing the vision, planning, execution and overall quality of the worship gatherings along with and under the leadership of the Executive Director of Creative Arts.
The successful candidate will be responsible for leading, developing, and facilitating engaging and meaningful Christ-centered worship experiences throughout the 3 campuses of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship. The Worship Leader / Pastor must have proven experience
building teams as well as pastoring and developing volunteers. They must be able to serve in a dynamic, multi-generational, and increasingly multi-ethnic congregational setting that represents the mission, vision, and interests of Cornerstone and its philosophy
of worship.

They should lead by example, and cultivate a positive spirit throughout the church family. They should represent Christ and His church well in the community at large. They should be a team player and follow the biblical model of sacrifice by being willing
to put the needs of others in front of their own. In all of their actions, they should be positive and supportive of the Core Values and the Vision of our church.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

As with any position at Cornerstone, each employee is part of a team, which means we all pull together during crisis times, special events, and when visible projects need done. Duties for this job could change at anytime.

Leadership

Assist in Worship Development & Culture

Assist in development of other worship leaders

Leading Worship

Lead worship on the weekends at the Chandler campus, rotating to other sites as needed.

Staff and Volunteer Development

Recruit, develop, schedule and lead volunteers.

Service Programming

Assist in weekly service programming.

Creatively work in conjunction with the Music / Worship Director to create custom song arrangements and original songs.

Cornerstone Christian Fellowship is a large bible-teaching church with three sites, the main location in Chandler, AZ and the multi-site locations in San Tan Valley, AZ and Scottsdale, AZ. Our mission is to Reach the Phoenix area for Christ and produce fully
devoted followers of Christ. Our vision is To "do" church in a way that reflects the community and offers real answers to life, while remaining true to God's Word. In 1995, Pastor Linn Winters and his wife Lisa came to Chandler with two other couples to plant
a church with three focus areas: Teach God’s Word in a way that is practicable and relevant, Worship authentically -- in a way that supersedes singing in church and becomes how we live our lives and to be a place where kids would want to come to church. Since
1995, the church has grown into 7000 member and attenders each week. With dozens of ministries focusing on specific needs of both the community and the body of believers at Cornerstone, we continue seeking to follow in the footsteps of Christ.

The Music Director will point people towards Jesus through the medium of art and music by assisting in the vision, planning, execution and overall quality of the worship gatherings along with and under the leadership of the Worship Director.

This person must have strong interpersonal skills and should represent Christ and His church well in the community at large. They should follow the biblical model of sacrifice by being willing to put the needs of others ini front of their own. In all of
their actions they should be positive and supporting of the Core Values and the Vision of Cornerstone.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsible for the standard of musicianship, including consistency in rehearsals, across all campuses.

Recruit, Develop, Schedule and lead musician teams for all campuses.

Artist relations; help coordinate guest artists, with the Worship Director.

Responsible for resourcing Tracks, Charts, Arrangements, Musicians, for all campuses.

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Astros right-hander Lance McCullers Jr. underwent Tommy John surgery today and will miss the 2019 season, tweets Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle. It’s a brutal blow for an Astros rotation that was already faced with the possibility of losing both Dallas Keuchel and Charlie Morton to free agency. The loss of McCullers for the…

Health considerations can certainly have a major impact on the development of the player market. Here are the latest notes on several hurlers whose medical reports bear watching: Astros GM Jeff Luhnow acknowledged yesterday that the team is awaiting word on the status of righty Lance McCullers Jr., Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle writes. McCullers…

I have been writing record reviews for years, but something that I usually don't admit - even to myself - is that the vast majority of records I review never get played afterwards. It is not because the Jon Downes personal playlist is - like that of so many people of my age - is conflined to music from my younger days, but because I am sent an enormous amount of new music, and only a portion of it will stick around in my head.

But I think that this one will.

Marianne Faithfull has released a beautifully gentle and contemplative new album full of songs mostly about death, loneliness and love. It is a perfect soundtrack to where I am this morning. She describes it as the most "honest" of her records, and reviewers have compared it with such late career highlights produced by Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen. I don't think that it sounds like either, being far more introspective and understated; two words that one does not usually associate with the oeuvre of Ms Faithfull, who is someopne that I have admired for many years. It is a beautiful record, and one that I truly look forward to getting to know better.

Corinna is mostly pain free, and is being massively brave. I cannot tell you how much I love and admire that woman. Poor lass has to undergo another batch of tests, and we continue to forge on until something actually happens. Please remember us in your thoughts and prayers.

Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eight whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium. Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?

I do have good news to impart: Lars Thomas' book about the mystery land animals of Scandinavia and the Baltic States has been uploaded, and over at Gonzo the first volume of Kev Rowland's The Progressive Underground is also imminent. And at Fortean Fiction, my latest novel - 'Zen and Xenophobia' - vaguely a sequel to 2015's 'The Song of Panne' - is now available.

! would warn you that if you are of a nervous disposition, or easily offended, you will find parts of my novel both offensive and upsetting. There is sex, violence, drug abuse, occultism, pornography, firearms, politics, religion, and not a little sociology. But there is also love, kindness, faith, and redemption. And it's a cracking good yarn. Or I think so, at any rate. All I would say on the subject before bidding you farewell is Caveat Lector. And I'm not gonna explain what that means, because because if you don't know what that means then you probably shouldn't be reading the book in the first place.

In another fantastically fab issue, Alan goes to a PsyTrance festie at Hebden Bridge and grooved to the sounds of Steve Hillage, System 7, Eat Static and more, we have a new interview with Rick Wakeman, Rob photographs Man in Cardiff, John goes to see Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Jon writes about Chaos Chaos, Mary Epworth and The Who, and Hawkwind go orchestral.

#Hail Eris!

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, AND as Lady Selene has been high in the sky, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, AND there are columns from Kev Rowlands, AND C J Stone, AND Mr Biffo but though Neil Nixon, AND Roy Weard AND the irrepressible Corinna are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with regards their footwear, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!

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* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk

* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 59 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown kittens, one totally coincidentally named after one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?

Georgians head to the polls for the 2018 midterm elections It's Election Day in Georgia, and voters have been heading to the polls in droves For Henry County resident Hanna McMillan, it was her first time casting a vote as a young adult Albert Lebron of Decatur said he hit the polls at the International Community School Chandler Parker of Atlanta said Stacey Abrams got his vote. "I think she’s an extremely intelligent person" Reid Logan, 63, and Debbie Logan, 60, both voted for Kemp. “He’s not a sociali

On a balmy night this summer, singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile stepped out on to the stage at Los Angeles’s Greek Theater and delivered a pared down, soaring rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You.” The audience remained silent and rapt, shouting only the occasional “woot” of approbation during a pause in the vocals.

For years, Carlile has been interpreting tunes from the de facto queen of folk music and introducing new fans to Mitchell’s unparalleled lyricism at her shows, so its both kismet and somehow pre-ordained that she’s slated to perform with about a dozen legends at Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration Live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Beyond landing the gig of a lifetime paying homage to the singer-songwriter who rose to fame as part of a handful of Laurel Canyon denizens who ruled the music scene in the late ‘60s, and who will likely be in attendance at the concert, Carlile’s music and career follows a long line of poets with guitars or a piano who've raised their voices and their platforms to highlight the plight of the marginalized.

“It’s a cliche to say you have a responsibility to use your platform to a certain extent. But it's a cliche for a reason because it’s just absolutely true,” Carlile told The Advocate about the connective tissue between music and activism.

“Just when I think I’m using my platform for forgiveness, I’m using it for politics and just when I think I’m using it to describe love or heartbreak or death, I’m really describing the sustainability of my family in the tumult going on in the country right now. They’re all really intertwined. They change meaning every time," she added.

Speaking with The Advocate in the wake of the contentious hearings around Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, and the ugly rhetoric around survivors of sexual abuse that followed, Carlile was primed to discuss politics and how musicians (particularly in the folk tradition) have long carried a mantle of activism for people in need.

An out lesbian throughout her career, Carlile has been married to her wife Catherine Shepherd since 2012. The women are raising two young daughters, so political and social activism are part and parcel of Carlile’s music and the message she delivers on stage.

While not renowned as the most political of singer/songwriters in the way that Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, or Joan Baez have been, Mitchell is an indisputable major influence in the canon of thoughtful music of healing and resistance. But Carlile said her journey to fully digest and understand Mitchell’s music was about 10 years in the making after producer T-Bone Burnett introduced her to Mitchell’s 1971 opus Blue, while Carlile was recording The Story in 2007.

“It’s one of those reckonings where I’ve been so moved and so taught by Joni Mitchell over the course of my adult life that it’s going to be a real honor to sing her songs and perhaps even have her witness that,” Carlile said about performing at the concert.

“I got Blue molecularly and I got it for real years ago and started meditating on Court and Spark,” Carlile said, adding that she’s a “late bloomer” when it comes to Mitchell. “That album and a couple of the tracks on Blue are what really influenced so much of the writing on my recent album By the Way, I Forgive You.”

Released in February of this year, the title track for By the Way, I Forgive You is Carlile’s reflection on grace and compassion in the face of oppression, inspired by her move toward forgiving the minister who refused to baptize her in her teens because she’s gay.

“It’s important to know that the religious right doesn’t have a monopoly on forgiveness anymore, or the word — a buzzword like ‘blessed,’ or words that we connote with white privilege,” Carlile said.

“It [forgiveness] is in danger of being one of those words when its a radically brave concept to forgive something or someone who's not even sorry, or to forgive yourself or to forgive life taking your parents away and being what it is,” she said of letting go, especially amid the current political climate.

While the notion of forgiveness on the title track of the album is all Carlile, Mitchell’s influence can be felt in the lyricism and the freedom in not being “phonetically held to the rhythm that Court and Spark represents” for her, she said. For those paying close attention, Carlile’s track “The Joke” includes a lyrical allusion to Mitchell’s melancholy holiday meditation "River."

“You gotta dance on a river to beat the stream,” is "The Joke's" nod to Mitchell, Carlile said.

The concert to celebrate Mitchell’s 75th birthday is, on its surface, an upscale event at a fancy venue, but the gathering together of musicians to tell a story or send a message that's bigger than the music is straight out of the tradition of Woodstock, and the annual Newport Folk Festival. James Taylor, Emmylou Harris, Seal, Chaka Khan, Rufus Wainwright, Diana Krall, and Kris Kristofferson are just a handful of those, along with Carlile, who are slated to perform Mitchell’s songs.

Carlile, who just enjoyed a cameo in the Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper blockbuster A Star Is Born, is on the bill to perform “Down to You” from Court and Spark. She's also slated to perform “A Case of You” with Kris Kristofferson, a duet she said is “a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration I can’t even deal with.”

Beyond the joy in performing from the Mitchell songbook for Mitchell in the audience, Carlile recognizes the great tradition of messaging through music but added that it was an older lesbian who pointed out to her during the early days of Barack Obama’s presidency that younger folks were too complacent. It was then that Carlile realized that she’d never penned a political song.

“Everything feels too good right now in this country. You kids need to wake up. We had Buffy [Sainte Marie] and Dylan and Joni and Leonard [Cohen], and we had these pioneers because of the unrest of the Vietnam war and the political problems we were facing in the ‘60s and ‘70s,” Carlile said the woman told her. “You have them but you don’t see them so you’re not writing about them.”

“It really stuck with me. I’d never written a political song or even made a political reference in my career up to that point,” Carlile said. “For the last couple of years we’ve been experiencing this whiplash from this wokeness that we’re all starting to realize is happening.”

With the Kavananaugh hearings in the rearview and ahead of the midterm elections in which the left is pulling for a “Blue Wave” of Democrats to take back Congress, Carlile hailed the power of using one’s platform for change. She praised pop star Taylor Swift (who was previously fairly apolitical) who recently came out as a Democrat and used her voice to urge fans to vote against Marsha Blackburn, the homophobic Republican running for the Senate.

Beyond the election, Carlile is socially and politically motivated to the core, but with two daughters to raise, she’s working especially hard to level the playing field for women. That includes having organized a Lilith Fair-like festival of all women performers. Her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Weekend kicks off in Mexico in January with performers including Patty Griffin, the Indigo Girls, Secret Sisters, and KT Tunstall and is intended to send a message to promoters — much like Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair did in the ‘90s — that women have earned and deserve a spot on the bill.

A songwriter with a penchant for soulful, mournful, and joyful lyrics, Carlile’s themes of forgiveness and activism can’t be extricated from one another. Whether its purposeful or not, her work has mirrored Mitchell’s in terms being a salve and firebrand.

“It’s so intertwined with Joni sometimes I don’t know where one begins and the other ends,” she said of Mitchell’s music to heal and send a message. "She [Joni] is peerless. She has no contemporaries.”

Prior to departing AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead‘ Andrew Lincoln‘s Rick Grimes saw a few major characters from his past but two notable faces were missing. In the show, he was visited by Jon Bernthal’s Shane, Scott Wilson’s Hershel, and Sonequa Martin-Green’s Sasha. However, it was easy to notice that his son Chandler Riggs’ Carl and wife Sarah Wayne Callies’s Lori were both missing. However, it should be noted that this was planned on who would show up to Rick and who wouldn’t. The explanation came from showrunner Angela Kang who shared that “there is a reason”: “We dove into this idea of the ‘third man phenomenon,’ When people are close to death, sometimes they imagine seeing somebody that they knew or that they don’t know that helped drive them to survive and keep them going. We had these three particular characters [Shane, Hershel, and Sasha] who are sort of filling an emotional need for him in the moment, but Rick’s entire journey is looking for his family, and I felt, creatively felt, that if he sees Lori or Carl he would feel like, ‘OK, I fulfilled my mission. I found them. I’m home. I can lay down and die now.’ He […]

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\ The Los Angeles Lakers made official, what had been speculated for days, signing free agent centre Tyson Chandler on Tuesday. While the team did not announce details of Chandler’s contract, ESPN reported the deal will pay Chandler $2,109,867 and the Lakers will take on a cap hit of $1,333,140. Chandler agreed to take $2.1 […]

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The Los Angeles Lakers made official what had been speculated for days, signing free agent center Tyson Chandler on Tuesday. While the team did not announce details of Chandler's contract, ESPN reported the deal will pay Chandler $2,109,867 and the Lakers will take on a cap hit of $1,333,140. Chandler

LOS ANGELES — Veteran centre Tyson Chandler signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday, two days after reaching a buyout agreement with the Phoenix Suns. Chandler will provide needed frontcourt depth for the Lakers, who have relied on JaVale McGee...

The 2018 U.S. midterm elections wound to a close Tuesday amid voter frustration in some parts of the country as worries about cyberattacks gave way to concerns about voting irregularities in a handful of states.
From Florida to Georgia to Texas, election monitors reported a gamut of glitches, from broken voting machines and a shortage of paper ballots to unexpectedly shuttered polling stations and agonizingly long lines.
Officials were quick to note, though, that problems were isolated and rapidly addressed by election officials. If so, it was little consolation to those voters who in some cases spent hours lined up to cast a ballot – and sometimes never got to do so.
In Georgia, Ontaria Woods said she waited more than three hours at a Gwinette County polling place and saw two dozen people who had come to vote leave because of the lines.
"We've been trying to tell them to wait, but people have children,'" Woods said. "People are getting hungry. People are tired."
​Nowhere was the frustration more palpable in Georgia, where Democrat Stacey Adams was running to be the country’s first female black governor against Republican Brian Kemp, the secretary of state whose oversight of elections was a central campaign issue.
Voters reported showing up only to find that their names were not on active voter registration rolls. Others said they’d been denied provisional ballots, Sara Henderson, executive director Common Cause of Georgia, told VOA.
After numerous reports of long lines, malfunctioning equipment and other issues, Common Cause got two local judges to extend voting hours at several precincts.
But Henderson said the results in close contests may not be known for several days or longer. That is because voters who cast provisional ballots would have to return to their election boards within three days to have their ballots validated.
"I think we’re in for a few days of trying to figure all this out," Henderson said.
Well before Tuesday’s vote, Georgia’s electoral system had drawn the scrutiny of voting rights advocates. Last month, Common Cause petitioned a court to block a state law requiring voter registration forms to exactly match data on file with state agencies.
The law had potentially barred more than 53,000 Georgians from registering to vote.
Many of those affected by the ruling were later allowed to register after a court issued an injunction temporarily suspending the match rules.
Elsewhere, reports of broken ballot scanners surfaced at several polling places in New York City, the Associated Press reported.
Turnout was so heavy at one packed precinct on Manhattan's Upper West Side that the line to scan ballots stretched around a junior high school gym. Voters arriving at two separate polling stations discovered that most scanners had broken down, forcing some people to drop their ballots in "emergency ballot boxes" or vote with an affidavit ballot.
"There are broken scanners everywhere in Brooklyn," Stefan Ringel, spokesman for Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, said.
​In Phoenix, a polling site was foreclosed on overnight. The owners of the property locked the doors, taking election officials by surprise.
Voters had been sent to another precinct nearby, but Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes said the location in Chandler was up and running shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday.
For about an hour after polls opened Tuesday morning, a Sarasota County, Florida, precinct had to tell voters to come back later because their ballots were not available.
Computer problems snarled voting for hours in Indiana, where a judge ordered 12 polling places in one northwestern county to stay open late after voting didn't start on time.
In Texas, home of a narrowly contested U.S. Senate race, delays were reported in Houston after apparent issues with registration check-in machines.
The U.S. Border Patrol also canceled a "crowd control exercise" that was scheduled for Tuesday in El Paso after criticism from civil liberties groups that it was too close to a polling center and could scare voters away.
​Federal officials said there were no signs of any foreign cyberattacks on critical election systems, although social media trolls targeted some voters with misinformation.
Several hours before polls closed, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen cautioned that the Russians "have a full court press through many means."
Still, officials insisted that two years of preparations are paying off as intrusion sensors had found no evidence of hacked systems.
There were "no tie-backs to any foreign actors that we’ve seen," said Chris Krebs, undersecretary for the Department of Homeland Security’s protection directorate.
WATCH: No foreign meddling
​Social media companies acted swiftly to take down what appeared to be deliberate misinformation, Krebs said. Several incidents were referred to law enforcement for investigation.
Nearly 100 million Americans were expected to take to the polls in an election that was widely seen as a referendum on the presidency of Donald Trump. A record 36 million Americans cast their ballots during early voting.
National Security Correspondent Jeff Seldin contributed to this report. Some material for this report came from The Associated Press.

Matt reviews the new comedy novel by Den of Geek’s very own Jenny Morrill

In his iconic mystery novels, Raymond Chandler would often place his hardboiled private detective protagonist Phillip Marlowe in some shadowy LA bar where he’d sit and sip a gimlet, a green cocktail, and watch a suspicious hood with a secret or meet up with a duplicitous blonde who he’d verbally spar with and maybe shake loose a detail that will knock the whole damn case into line.

In her debut novel Crap Holiday, Jenny Morrill places her scrambled protagonist Melissa in a collapsing tent, drinking ouzo from a Daniel O’Donnell mug and hiding from a spaced out div who won’t stop playing the lute.

If you’re a Den of Geek regular, you might know author Jenny Morrill as the writer of Rainbow articles that are full of Bungle jokes and maniacism. Her novel is similarly unhinged and hilarious.

Scraping out of work at the Co-op by relaying the sad news of imaginary Uncle Jeff’s illness, Melissa takes her first ever camping trip with housemate Joanne (Joanne having booked it without telling her because she’s made plans to meet up with a self-proclaimed karate expert called Fax and doesn’t want it to look like she has no mates). Surrounded on all sides by people who are really into crystals, vibes and wanting her to join in, things look dire. But thanks to large amounts of booze, Freddos and negativity, Melissa may just make it through the weekend.

Crap Holiday is laugh out loud funny. It’s not a great book to read on a bus or in a coffee shop, unless you’re ok with looking like a cackling idiot.

The book works entirely because it’s so much fun to spend time with Melissa. Melissa is great because she spends all her time negotiating genuine problems and petulantly pursuing solutions that make them all considerably worse. She narrates us through her catastrophic decision-making process with a vocabulary that’s been curated for juvenile swearing and spite.

Melissa has a skewed and sharp take on just about everything. That’s what makes her a fun character; you could drop her into any situation and there will be laughs in the material. She can be mean but is always likeable enough that you want to spend time with her. Her earnest moments are few and far between, but they are there, usually shared with her trusty sidekick (a Daniel O’Donnell mug).

There’s no shortage of fun stuff for her to react to in Crap Holiday. Whether she’s facing down Co-op customers, suffering through Slimming World meetings or attempting to keep the lid on the world’s most disappointing house party, she’s presented with a conveyor belt of infuriating misfits and offensive idiots. And when you figure in hangovers and a missing Skeletor action figure, you should probably brace yourselves for a fair bit of swearing.

While it takes more of its drive from its lead character than its narrative, the construction of the story feels well balanced. It zips along with short chapters and pacey prose, wringing each set-up for laughs before chucking it to one side and getting stuck right into the next one.

There’s a sense of impending incident in there too, and with it comes a nagging worry that the incident would have to be something that either breaks the sense of reality or shifts the tone dramatically. The way things are going two thirds in, it’s very hard to imagine how this novel is going to stop being silly long enough to give the character her arc or produce something that will give the ending a sense of climax. But what follows is brilliant, authentic and in the spirit of the stuff preceding it. There’s no cheat to it at all.

The novel ends up being a sort of ode to directionless smartarses who find as they get older that the floor isn’t so firmly beneath their feet anymore, but who still have the presence of mind to tell the ground it’s a dickhead as they stumble along.

Crap Holiday is relentlessly funny. An irreverent riot from start to finish, it comes highly recommended.

Ronald Menard passed away on Monday, November 5, 2018, at the age of 66.
A Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, at 10:00 AM at Quirk and Son Funeral Home in Eunice. Burial will follow at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cemetery. Deacon David Guillory will officiate.
At the request of the family visitation will begin on Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 10:00 AM until 10:00 PM at Quirk and Son Funeral Home in Eunice and will reopen on Wednesday at 8:00 AM until time of services. A rosary will be prayed on Tuesday at 7:00 PM.
Ronald is survived by his son, Richard Menard and wife Chay of Basile, La., two daughters; Shelly Sattler and husband Michael of Eunice, La., Faith Freeman and husband Ben of Sulphur, La., four brothers; Floyd Menard of Eunice, Harold Menard of Eunice, Anthony Menard of Eunice and James Richard of Eunice, two sisters; Mona Rae Chandler of De Quincy, Diana Matt of Eunice, La., seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Ronald was preceded in death by his parents, Hughes Menard and Vergie Blanchard, two brothers, Gene Richard and Richard Menard, one sister, Liz Gargaious.
Quirk and Son Funeral Home in Eunice is in charge of the arrangements.

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Why does Below Deck always have bosun problems? It’s basically a guarantee on these shows that the third stew and the bosun will be a mess and all season everyone will be moaning and groaning over their ineptitude and bad attitude. Well, here we go again! Caroline Bedol is the little chihuahua that can’t. Work […]

Yahoo SportsChandler cleared waivers on Tuesday and officially signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, the team announced Tuesday afternoon. “Having observed our roster for the first 10 games of this young season, one of the areas that Earvin and I discussed with Luke …Lakers sign Tyson ChandlerLos Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Lakers Officially Sign Center, […]

DOBSON — The Surry County Board of Commissioners will keep one familiar face after the board chairman won his bid for re-election. Incumbent Eddie Harris defeated political newcomer Karen Osburn-Chandler for the South District seat. [...]

Paul. I'll bet he has been there. He is retired and went from being a busy attorney to avid birder. He is addicted to it. My sister in law is not that into it, so he has a group of friends who are avid too and they go all over the country. Even went to South Africa. A great film my brother told us to watch several yrs ago is called The Big Year (or perfect year?)...a true story....it was a good book too. Great little movie.
Anyway he absolutely loves Arizona.......esp Southern Arizona. I am only familiar with Sedona, Flaggstaff..Grand C.
My brother in law has family in Gilbert, Chandler.

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NC-Charlotte, job summary: Senior Java/J2EE Developer Looking for a highly motivated and expert Java technical consultant. The ideal consultant for this exciting new development position has a passion for technology and demonstrates that they can quickly understand and provide technology solutions are delivered as shared services for multiple line of business. Multiple Locations: Charlotte, NC/Chandler, AZ/Sain

NC-Charlotte, job summary: Senior Java/J2EE Developer Looking for a highly motivated and expert Java technical consultant. The ideal consultant for this exciting new development position has a passion for technology and demonstrates that they can quickly understand and provide technology solutions are delivered as shared services for multiple line of business. Location : MN - St. Louis Park, AZ-Chandler & NC-Ch

NC-Charlotte, job summary: Senior Java/J2EE Developer Looking for a highly motivated and expert Java technical consultant. The ideal consultant for this exciting new development position has a passion for technology and demonstrates that they can quickly understand and provide technology solutions are delivered as shared services for multiple line of business. Multiple Locations: Charlotte, NC/Chandler, AZ/Sain

MURTAUGH DIGS COLE OUT OF TROUBLE ON AN ALL-NEW "LETHAL WEAPON" TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, ON FOX

Mykelti Williamson and Paola Lázaro Guest-Star

Murtaugh turns to Cole's former mentor, Tom Barnes (guest star Mykelti Williamson), for help on a high-stakes cartel case. Meanwhile, Murtaugh and Trish meet Natalie (guest star Maggie Lawson) and Maya (guest star Shay Rudolph) for the first time, and tensions mount between Bailey and "The Gute" (guest star Paola Lázaro), as the new partners begin to work together in the all-new "Bali" episode of LETHAL WEAPON airing Tuesday, Nov. 13 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (LET-307) (TV-14 D, L, V)

It's not often Vermonters get to view artwork by major contemporary women artists of the Middle East. A traveling exhibition of single works by 31 such artists, now on view at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington, is an extraordinary opportunity to do just that. "I AM: Contemporary Middle Eastern Women Artists and the Quest to Build Peace" includes works by Arab and Persian artists who are Muslim or Christian. Seven are from Bahrain; the rest are from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Palestine, Yemen, Morocco, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Iraq or Saudi Arabia. The range of mediums represented is gratifyingly diverse, from oil and acrylic paintings to photography, collage, ink on paper, digital prints, scanography, mixed media, sculpture and, in one case, human hair affixed to calf vellum. Some of the artists are based or were trained in the UK, the U.S. or Europe. High-end auction companies Christie's and Sotheby's represent a few of them, and nearly all have been exhibited and collected internationally. All the works are for sale, and these artists' integration in the global art market accounts for why the show would seem at home in any contemporary gallery in any major U.S. city. So, how did it end up on the concrete walls of St. Paul's, an Episcopal church? "I AM" is a peace-building project of Caravan, a nonprofit founded in Egypt in 2009 by Paul-Gordon Chandler, an American Episcopal priest. The son of a minister, he grew up in Senegal "surrounded by other faiths and art," Chandler said during a phone call, and was educated in Côte d'Ivoire and England. He launched Caravan during a 10-year posting in Cairo; its mission is to use the arts to unite people of different backgrounds and faiths in an effort to build sustainable peace. Caravan's art exhibition began as a citywide East-West arts festival in Cairo that continued annually until 2013, when president Mohamed Morsi was overthrown. That year's exhibition traveled to London while Caravan itself moved, with Chandler, to Chicago. Every Caravan exhibition since has also toured the U.S. St. Paul's former dean and rector, the Very Reverend Jeanne Finan, who retired in October, had been following Chandler's work. She emailed him when she spotted an online call for venues for "I AM." Thus Burlington became the last — and smallest — stop on the tour of an exhibition that opened at the Jordan…

Health considerations can certainly have a major impact on the development of the player market. Here are the latest notes on several hurlers whose medical reports bear watching: Astros GM Jeff Luhnow acknowledged yesterday that the team is awaiting word on the status of righty Lance McCullers Jr., Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle writes. McCullers…

Jasper County has three board of supervisors seats. Currently serving on the board are Carpenter, Republican Cupples and Joe Brock — the lone Democrat who decided not to run for reelection this year. Supervisors serve four-year terms on the board.

During the race, candidates found common ground advocating for increasing economic developments throughout Jasper County and wanting more proactive leadership. Where they differed was through their individual approaches to county government and what they believed should be top priorities — roads, planning, smart spending, acknowledgment of rural communities.

Urging residents to “vote for the beard,” Talsma certainly had the catchiest campaign slogan in the race; yet he had not held elected office prior to his supervisors win. As a fourth generation farmer in Jasper County, Talsma carried himself as a voice for both rural and agricultural residents throughout his campaign.

Talsma also voiced his concerns, rallying for better road conditions and countywide development. Upon his election, Talsma said he would bring “new ideas and energy” to the board of supervisors and would work to get citizens’ concerns heard at meetings,” especially those living in rural communities.

“I want to make sure their voices are heard,” Talsma said. “I know from several people I’ve talked to said that several communities feel like they’re not being equally represented.”

Also representing rural Jasper County is Carpenter. Running as the sole incumbent in the Jasper County Board of Supervisors race, Carpenter maintains he is anything but a politician. He worked for the county engineer’s office for 36-and-a-half years before deciding to serve county government.

Bringing with him almost 12 years of experience on the board of supervisors, Carpenter maintains his dedication to the job by going to the office each day he can. To him, being on the board of supervisors is about “helping people and not politics.” His win continues Carpenter’s commitment to public service.

Prior to the election, Carpenter confided to the Newton Daily News about the results.

“Win or lose, God’s in control,” Carpenter said. “There is no such thing as luck. It’s God’s grace. Everything that happens to you is God’s will. If it’s not God’s will that I get re-elected, then another door is going to open.”

Upon his win, Carpenter said he was pleasantly surprised and humbly considered himself a servant to the people.

“What is my duty? To have a government that is effective and efficient and operates at the lowest possible cost and is always looking for ways to improve our services and cut the cost of county government,” Carpenter said.

Days of Our Lives (DOOL) spoilers tease that Paul (Christopher Sean) will be getting more unsure of his relationship with Will (Chandler Massey) as time goes on. Will seems to say all the right words and does all the right things, like getting a wheelchair-accessible apartment for Paul. But Paul’s keen detective skills can sense that something just isn’t right.… Keep Reading

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Mark Ballas brought his Green Beret Challenge (GBC) Commando course to the Kansas City area for 8+ miles of building better humans. The GBC Commando course requires athletes to team up in a group of four (all male, all female or 2/2 coed are the three categories) and traverse the entire course together while completing challenges/obstacles.

Veteran center Tyson Chandler signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday, two days after reaching a buyout agreement with the Phoenix Suns. Chandler will provide needed frontcourt depth for the Lakers, who have relied on JaVale McGee and undersized forwards to guard big men during their 4-6 start to the season. Rookie center Moe Wagner still hasn't made his debut while returning slowly from a knee injury, and Lakers basketball boss Magic Johnson didn't want to wait any longer to bolster his team's areas of need.

In the past quarter, Twilio acquired Ytica and announced it would acquire SendGrid, both of which would help expand its cloud communications platform.

Shares of Twilio, a cloud communications company headquartered in San Francisco, surged as high as 34% in intraday trading on Wednesday — the day after it reported that it beat Wall Street expectations on earnings.

During its third quarter, Twilio generated a total revenue of $168.9 million, up 68 percent from the same period of 2017. That figure far surpassed Wall Street’s expectations of $150.5 million. That means earnings of 7 cents per share, beating the consensus figure of 5 cents.

“We’re thrilled to report yet another strong quarter for revenue growth, product innovation, and customer success in Q3,” Jeff Lawson, Twilio’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, said in a statement.

Here are the key figures from Twilio earnings:

Revenue: $168.9 million. Wall Street expected $150.5 million.

Earnings per share: $0.07 per share, versus $0.05 expected.

Revenue guidance for next quarter: $183 million to $185 million

Non-GAAP EPS for next quarter: $0.03 to $0.04.

In the past quarter, Twilio acquired Ytica, a speech-analytics startup and a long-time partner, and it signed an agreement to acquire the email API platform SendGrid in a $2 billion deal. With its acquisition of SendGrid, Twilio hopes to incorporate email into its cloud communications platform.

In addition, Twilio launched new products like Twilio Pay, an API which allows developers to securely process payments over the phone, and announced the general availability of general availability of Twilio Flex, which allows businesses to customize the platform to support their business needs.

In the past year, the number of customer accounts grew by about one-third, the company reported, and Twilio expanded its executive team this quarter to add Khozema Shipchandler as Chief Financial Officer and Nils Puhlmann as Chief Trust and Security Officer.

After clearing waivers on a contract buyout with the Phoenix Suns, center Tyson Chandler plans to sign a deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, league sources told ESPN. Chandler, 36, will be a backup to starting center JaVale McGee for the Lakers, who are desperate for an infusion of size and defensive rebounding. Source: Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN

In the past quarter, Twilio acquired Ytica and announced it would acquire SendGrid, both of which would help expand its cloud communications platform.

Shares of Twilio, a cloud communications company headquartered in San Francisco, surged as high as 34% in intraday trading on Wednesday — the day after it reported that it beat Wall Street expectations on earnings.

During its third quarter, Twilio generated a total revenue of $168.9 million, up 68 percent from the same period of 2017. That figure far surpassed Wall Street’s expectations of $150.5 million. That means earnings of 7 cents per share, beating the consensus figure of 5 cents.

“We’re thrilled to report yet another strong quarter for revenue growth, product innovation, and customer success in Q3,” Jeff Lawson, Twilio’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, said in a statement.

Here are the key figures from Twilio earnings:

Revenue: $168.9 million. Wall Street expected $150.5 million.

Earnings per share: $0.07 per share, versus $0.05 expected.

Revenue guidance for next quarter: $183 million to $185 million

Non-GAAP EPS for next quarter: $0.03 to $0.04.

In the past quarter, Twilio acquired Ytica, a speech-analytics startup and a long-time partner, and it signed an agreement to acquire the email API platform SendGrid in a $2 billion deal. With its acquisition of SendGrid, Twilio hopes to incorporate email into its cloud communications platform.

In addition, Twilio launched new products like Twilio Pay, an API which allows developers to securely process payments over the phone, and announced the general availability of general availability of Twilio Flex, which allows businesses to customize the platform to support their business needs.

In the past year, the number of customer accounts grew by about one-third, the company reported, and Twilio expanded its executive team this quarter to add Khozema Shipchandler as Chief Financial Officer and Nils Puhlmann as Chief Trust and Security Officer.

AZ-Chandler, Overall purpose of the Job Responsible for all activities associated with running the rotary die cutters including setup, operation, cleanup, and recommending improvements to operations. Reporting Line Shift Supervisor Accountability The Rotary Die Cut Operator works within a team to operate the Rotary Die Cut machine in a safe, efficient and reliable manner. The position holder will follow all pe

AZ-Chandler, Assists with all activities associated with running the assigned machinery including setup, cleanup, cross training and continuous improvements to operations. Reporting Line Production Supervisor Accountability The Production Worker works within a team to assist in operating assigned machinery in a safe, efficient and reliable manner. The position holder will follow all pertinent ISO 9001 procedur

AZ-Chandler, Job ID: 145150 Superlite, a CRH company, is a division of the CRH Americas Architectural Products Group (APG). APG is North America’s leading manufacturer and supplier of concrete masonry, dry mix, and hardscape products. With over $2B in sales, APG operates across 40 states and 5 Canadian provinces through a network of over 165 operating locations and more than 5,000 employees. Summary Operate pl

Cleaning and breaking down trays in the dish area. We are currently looking for a Room Service Server to join our team at our Crowne Plaza San Marcos Golf...From Evolution Hospitality - Wed, 07 Nov 2018 19:48:01 GMT - View all Chandler, AZ jobs

Veteran centre Tyson Chandler, bought out by the Suns, cleared waivers and signed with the Los Angeles Lakers. Chandler, 36, will provide needed frontcourt depth for the Lakers — his seventh team in 18 seasons — who have relied on JaVale McGee and...

Tyson Chandler, poised to suit up for the Lakers on Wednesday night against Minnesota, said he picked Los Angeles among about five potential teams, according to Joey Ramirez of Lakers.com. Speaking today to reporters, including Kyle Goon of The Orange County Register, Chandler said he knew his days with the Suns were numbered and jumped […]